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So anyway to backup chrome extensions and prevent updates? Still have several deprecated extensions with no alternative.
by maxglute 2y ago
So anyway to backup chrome extensions and prevent updates? Still have several deprecated extensions with no alternative.
- xethos 2y agoThis is on-par with asking how to keep using your 32-bit and PowerPC apps on MacOS. Not even OSX, but modern MacOS. The OEM is actively pulling support and working against you. There is no stable solution; at best you can have "This week we're doing X", and the correct solution is to move away from the unsupported software that depends on depreciated APIs that are being actively ripped out. Having "no alternative" is one of the many reasons the open ecosystem we call the web, matters. Why having a single choice, especially one run by an ad agency, is a shite spot to be in. Unless you are willing to do your web browsing on an unpatched version of Chrome, or a fork run by a smaller team that "can totally keep up with Google's pace of development, trust us, those security patches made it in", you're kind of hooped.
- maxglute 2y agoCritical industrial software runs on windows 95, such is life. I've tried migrating to firefox several times last couple years, but essential functionality still lacking (though improving). I'll choose workflow over security, as I imagine many others will.
- kennysoona 2y agoWhat essential functionality do you think Firefox lacks?
- tim333 2y agoI've tried blocking updates. I got told by an llm to rename ~/Library/Google/GoogleSoftwareUpdate on the macbook so we'll see how that goes.
- whamlastxmas 2y agoReally bad idea from security perspective